Chicksands Bedfordshire Family History Guide
CHICKSANDS (formerly extra parochial) is now a parish, distant a mile and a half north west from Shefford, and 40 miles from London by rail, in the hundred and union and county court district of Biggleswade1.
Alternative names: Chicksands Priory
The area is returned with Shefford Hardwicke, and the population in 1861 was 77.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
CHICKSANDS-PRIORY, an extra-parochial tract in Biggleswade district, Beds; on the river Ivel, near the Midland railway, 1 ¾ mile WNW of Shefford. Acres, 2,120. Real property, £2,122. Pop., 77. Houses, 10. The mansion of Chicksands Priory here, the seat of Sir G. Osborne, Bart., includes considerable part of the buildings of a priory, founded about 1150 by Pain de Beauchamp; and contains James I.’s bed, and a portrait of Cromwell by Lely.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72]
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Chicksands, 1 m. Shefford. P. 60.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
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Directories
The Post Office Directory of Bedfordshire 1869
CHICKSANDS (formerly extra parochial) is now a parish, distant a mile and a half north west from Shefford, and 40 miles from London by rail, in the hundred and union and county court district of Biggleswade.
Osborn Sir George Robert bart
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Mossman James farmer
Mossman James jun farmer Chicksands Lodge farm
Source: The Post office directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire By Kelly’s directories, ltd 1869
Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Biggleswade
- Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Biggleswade
- Hundred: Clifton
- Province: Canterbury
Footnotes
- The Post office directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire By Kelly’s directories, ltd 1869 ↩︎